SENATE BILL No. 991

 

 

February 12, 2004, Introduced by Senator ALLEN and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

 

        

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                 A bill to amend 1945 PA 47, entitled                                              

                                                                                

    "An act to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and villages,             

    or any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to                   

    incorporate a hospital authority for planning, promoting,                   

    acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning,           

    maintaining, and operating 1 or more community hospitals and                

    related buildings or structures and related facilities; to                  

    provide for the sale, lease, or other transfer of a hospital                

    owned by a hospital authority to a nonprofit corporation                    

    established under the laws of this state for no or nominal                  

    monetary consideration; to define hospitals and community                   

    hospitals; to provide for changes in the membership therein; to             

    authorize the cities, townships, and villages to levy taxes for             

    community hospital purposes; to provide for the issuance of                 

    bonds; to provide for the pledge of assessments; to provide for             

    borrowing money for operation and maintenance and issuing notes             

    for operation and maintenance; to validate elections heretofore             

    held and notes heretofore issued; to validate bonds heretofore              

    issued; to authorize condemnation proceedings; to grant certain             

    powers of a body corporate; to validate and ratify the                      

    organization, existence, and membership of entities acting as               

    hospital authorities under the act and the actions taken by                 

    hospital authorities and by the members of the hospital                     

    authorities; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"              

                                                                                

    by amending section 2 (MCL 331.2).                                          

                                                                                

                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:                      

                                                                                


                                                                                

1       Sec. 2.  (1) The hospital authority  shall be  is a body                    

                                                                                

2   corporate with power to sue or be sued in any court of this state           

                                                                                

3   and may exercise those powers necessary and incident to the                 

                                                                                

4   acquisition, construction, improvement, enlargement, extension,             

                                                                                

5   ownership, maintenance, and operation of 1 or more community                

                                                                                

6   hospitals.  The authority may contract with any of the                      

                                                                                

7   participating cities, villages, and townships, or any other city,           

                                                                                

8   village, or township, or with any county  department of social              

                                                                                

9   welfare  family independence agency, for the hospital care of               

                                                                                

10  indigent patients and other persons entitled to hospital care at            

                                                                                

11  public expense.  The authority may contract with any individual,            

                                                                                

12  firm, or corporation for the furnishing of hospital care to                 

                                                                                

13  persons at the private expense of the individual, firm, or                  

                                                                                

14  corporation.  The authority may establish rules providing for a             

                                                                                

15  system of civil service for its employees.                                  

                                                                                

16      (2) An entity  which  that is unable to document compliance                 

                                                                                

17  with sections 1 and 3  , which  and is acting or purporting to              

                                                                                

18  act as a hospital authority under this act  , and which                     

                                                                                

19  continuously owned and operated a hospital for not less than 15             

                                                                                

20  years before the effective date of this subsection,  shall be  is           

                                                                                

21  a hospital authority duly organized and existing under this act             

                                                                                

22  ,  and fully empowered to exercise any power granted to a                  

                                                                                

23  hospital authority under this act  .  The entity shall file a               

                                                                                

24  written notice with the clerk of each city, village, or township            

                                                                                

25  included in the hospital authority within 30 days after the                 

                                                                                

26  effective date of this subsection stating that the entity, being            

                                                                                

27  unable to document compliance with sections 1 and 3, is                     


                                                                                

1   recognized as a hospital authority pursuant to this subsection.             

                                                                                

2   if the entity satisfies either of the following:                            

                                                                                

3       (a) Continuously owned and operated a hospital for not less                 

                                                                                

4   than 15 years before February 6, 1978 and filed a written notice            

                                                                                

5   with the clerk of each city, village, or township included in the           

                                                                                

6   hospital authority within 30 days after February 6, 1978 stating            

                                                                                

7   that the entity, being unable to document compliance with                   

                                                                                

8   sections 1 and 3, is recognized as a hospital authority pursuant            

                                                                                

9   to this subsection.                                                         

                                                                                

10      (b) Continuously owned and operated a hospital for not less                 

                                                                                

11  than 40 years before the effective date of this subdivision and             

                                                                                

12  filed a written notice with the clerk of each city, village, or             

                                                                                

13  township included in the hospital authority within 30 days after            

                                                                                

14  the effective date of this subdivision stating that the entity,             

                                                                                

15  being unable to document compliance with sections 1 and 3, is               

                                                                                

16  recognized as a hospital authority pursuant to this subsection.             

                                                                                

17      (3) An action or proceeding taken before February 6, 1978 by                

                                                                                

18  a hospital authority recognized by subsection (2)(a) or before              

                                                                                

19  the effective date of  this  subsection (2)(b) by a hospital                

                                                                                

20  authority recognized by subsection  (2)  (2)(b), which a hospital           

                                                                                

21  authority is empowered by this act to take, is validated,                   

                                                                                

22  ratified, and confirmed.  A city, village, or township  which               

                                                                                

23  that appointed a representative to the board of a hospital                  

                                                                                

24  authority recognized by subsection  (2)  (2)(a) or (b) or  which            

                                                                                

25  that levied a tax for or made payments to a hospital authority              

                                                                                

26  recognized by subsection  (2)  (2)(a) or (b) pursuant to this act           

                                                                                

27  shall be  is a member of that hospital authority, and  shall be            


                                                                                

1   is considered to have been a member of that hospital authority              

                                                                                

2   since the date a representative was first appointed, the tax was            

                                                                                

3   first levied, or the payment was first made.  , a member of that            

                                                                                

4   hospital authority.  Any action or proceeding of a city, village,           

                                                                                

5   or township taken in regard to a hospital authority recognized by           

                                                                                

6   subsection  (2)  (2)(a) or (b), which the city, village, or                 

                                                                                

7   township was empowered by this act to take in regard to a duly              

                                                                                

8   organized and existing hospital authority, is  hereby  validated,           

                                                                                

9   ratified, and confirmed.